Robert C. Byrd: “I think that on behalf of the people--it is their money.”

So as I understand your response, you do not think that the intelligence community would have come to any different conclusion about Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction if the 9/11 Commission's recommendation for intelligence…

Why does the administration believe that the Appropriations Committee, or Congress, should have no say in how this $200 million foreign aid program should be spent?

The size of the insurgency in Iraq has been consistently underestimated, in terms of the size and the force.

the Congress has passed two use-of-force resolutions, one almost immediately after the September 11 attacks